(SportsNetwork.com) - The Toronto Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres meet for the
fifth and final time this regular season on Wednesday night when the Atlantic
Division clubs clash at Air Canada Centre.

The Leafs and Sabres have split the four previous meetings, with each club
winning twice at home. The previous two encounters have both gone past
regulation, with Buffalo recording an overtime victory on Nov. 29 nearly a
month prior to Toronto's 4-3 shootout triumph on Dec 27.

Overall, the teams have split their past 20 meetings, with the Maple Leafs
winning three in a row and nine of the last 11 played in Toronto.

The Leafs are looking for a third straight victory tonight after holding off
the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Tuesday. Tyler Bozak scored twice and added an
assist, while Jonathan Bernier made 14 of his 38 saves in the third period.

James van Riemsdyk had a goal and an assist, Jake Gardiner scored and Phil
Kessel tallied three helpers as Toronto has won back-to-back contests
following a four-game slide.

"Well we've been giving a better effort that's for sure," said Toronto head
coach Randy Carlyle. "We've raised our compete level and we're going to have
to continue to do that to get points. That's the most frustrating part for our
hockey club has been that we haven't been able to achieve that with any
consistency. That's frustrating for the coaching staff, that's for sure."

Carlyle is likely to give James Reimer the start in net tonight. He is 1-0-1
against the Sabres this season, allowing five goals on 64 shots faced, and is
6-2-2 against them lifetime with a 3.27 goals against average.

Kessel, van Riemsdyk and Nikolai Kulemin have all scored twice against the
Sabres this season.

Buffalo heads out on the road for a game after having an eight-game home point
streak snapped last night in a 4-3 setback to the Philadelphia Flyers. The
Sabres are just 4-14-2 on the road compared to 9-13-3 at home, but return to
Buffalo for three in a row starting on Saturday.

Tied at 1-1 going into the third period on Tuesday, the Sabres and Flyers
engaged in a back-and-forth frame that featured five goals in total. The last
went to Philadelphia as Vincent Lecavalier scored with 14.8 seconds left in
regulation.

Cody Hodgson, Matt D'Agostini and Tyler Ennis tallied for the Sabres, who had
been 6-0-2 in their previous eight at home and lost for the fourth time in the
last six games overall.

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